Adding New Drawing Elements

There are different ways to add a drawing layer to your project. By default, when you create a new scene there is one Drawing column in the Xsheet view and one corresponding Drawing layer in the Timeline view.

You can add an element for each drawing and it will appear as a column in the Xsheet view, a layer in the Timeline view, and a module in the Network view.

Create New Element: Create an independent column with its own drawing folder.

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Reuse Existing Folder: Link your column to an existing folder within the Element folder of your scene. If you select this option, in the Folder drop-down field, select the folder to which you want to link your new column.

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Use Existing Element:Use drawings from an existing column in the new column. Both columns will be attached to the same set of drawings, but their timing will remain independent from one another. If you modify one of the drawings, it will be modified in both columns. This is the same principle as the Clone column.

If you selected the Use Existing Element option, in the Name drop-down field, select the column to which you want to link your new column.

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If you selected the Create New Element option:

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Deselect the Vector option if you want your layer to contain bitmap images or enable it if you want the layer to contain vector drawings. Most of the time, the Vector option will be enabled.

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If you deselected the Vector option, from the Bitmap Format list, select which type of bitmap image you want to insert in the column. Select the SCAN type if you are planning to scan drawings using the Toon Boom Harmony Scan module.

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If you deselected the Vector option and you chose the SCAN type, from the Scan Type menu, select what kind of scanning you want to achieve.

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In the Field Chart field, when importing traditional animation, indicate the size of paper on which the animation or background was drawn. If you are not using perforated animation paper, leave the 12 field default value as is.

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Do one of the following:

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Click OK button to create the new column and close the dialog box.

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Click Apply to create the new column but keep the dialog box opened to create other new columns.